A second eight-year-old girl is in a life-threatening condition after a car crashed into a primary school in southwest London.
Tributes were left to a “shining star” – also an eight-year-old girl – who died after the crash in Wimbledon on Thursday.
A woman, aged 46, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
She has been released on bail until a date later this month, police said today.
A total of 16 people were treated at the scene and 12 were taken to hospital following the incident which happened during a garden party to celebrate the end of the school year.
The Study Preparatory School said it was “profoundly shocked by the tragic accident” and “devastated that it has claimed the life of one of our young pupils as well as injuring several others”.
The independent school is for girls aged four to 11 and sits on Wimbledon Common, just a mile away from the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club as it hosts the world-famous tennis tournament.
It is understood that the car hit the area of the school which housed the younger girls, aged between four and eight.
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